The Warner T. Koiter Medal was established in 1996 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It is awarded in recognition of distinguished work in the field of

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. The award was funded by the Technical University of Delft in the honor of

Warner T. Koiter Warner Tjardus Koiter (Amsterdam, June 16, 1914 – Delft, September 2, 1997) was an influential mechanical engineer and the Professor of Applied Mechanics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from 1949 to 1979. Life and educa ...

, who was a professor at the university from 1949 till 1979. Koiter's most influential work dealt with the non-linear stability of structures. The recipient is given an honorarium and a bronze medal.

Nomination procedure

The Koiter Medal Committee consists of the five recent Koiter Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the

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International

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(AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME Committee on Honors.

Koiter Medal recipients

* 2021 – Gerhard A. Holzapfel,

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, Austria * 2020 – Anthony Waas,

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* 2019 – K. T. Ramesh,

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* 2018 – M. Taher A. Saif,

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* 2017 – Wei Yang,

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* 2016 – Pedro Ponte Castañeda,

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* 2015 – Kaushik Bhattacharya,

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* 2014 – G. Ravichandran,

* 2013 – Norman A. Fleck,

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* 2012 – Erik van der Giessen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen * 2011 – James G. Simmonds * 2010 – Nicolas Triantafyllidis * 2009 – Stelios Kyriakides * 2008 – Richard. D. James,

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* 2007 – Chin-Teh Sun * 2006 – Pierre Suquet * 2005 – Raymond W. Ogden * 2004 – Zenon Mróz * 2003 – David R. J. Owen * 2002 – James K. Knowles,

* 2001 – Wolfgang G. Knauss,

* 2000 – Giulio Maier * 1999 – Charles R. Steele * 1998 – Viggo Tvergaard * 1997 –

References

Information for nominationKoiter Medal page at the ASME website

Nomination procedure

Koiter Medal recipients

References

See also